Improvement in wheels for vehicles



W. BEERS.

Wheels for Vehicles. "No. 134,241. 7 Patented Dec.24,1 872.

wnNEs'sfEs. INVENTORQ j %z? a m w I n V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM BEERS, OF MILAN, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEELTS FOR VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,%4l, dated December24, 1872.

I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BEERS, of

Milan, in the county of Erie and State of Ohio,

have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Wheel-Hubs and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of my invention in detail,showing the metallic band. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of my invention.

This invention has relation to wheel-hubs 0 that class which areprovided with slotted iron bands about their middle parts, for thepurpose of preventing the splitting of such hubs and of otherwisestrengthening the same; and it consists in the construction and novelarrangement of the morti'ses in the hub and the broad slots of the band,whereby the spokes are enabled to be inserted in full width through theslots of the band, which is designed to be shrunk or otherwise firmlysecured upon the a hub.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, the

letter A designates the wheel-hub, mortised at ring B, provided withslots for the passage of the spoke ends, is made of iron, and shrunk or1 otherwise fastened upon the central portion of the hub. The slots ofthe hub are of the full width of the spoke ends, which are insertedthrough them, and rest upon the shoulders or ofisets a of the mortisesand upon the axlebox. The slots of the band are arranged instaggerorder. This band is designed to be made of thin metal, so that itwill add but little to the weight of. the wheel, while, on account ofits broad slots, it will allow the full width of the spokes to be driveninto the hub, and will at the same time be strong enough to prevent thehub from being broken by the strain or wringing of the spokes. The bandis preferably made of wrought-iron, and shrunk upon the hub. Thehub-mortises have a radial arrangement, and are separated by means ofV-shaped partitions Z, shouldered on each side of their outerextremities, as shown, to support the corresponding shoulders of thespokes,

these shoulders being beveled or sloping toward each other, both in thepartitions and in the spokes. Outward from said shoulders the partitionsextend, in contracted form, to the surface of the hub, and are coveredexactly by the partitions between the slots of the hub.

Having described my invention, what I- stagger order and shrunk upon thehub, and

the spokes O shouldered at to below the band, substantially asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM BEERS. Witnesses:

DARWIN FAY, .G. R. GAsToN.

